Bookmarks for April 30, 2009

  • Swine Flu Hemagglutinin
    Swine flu amino acids sequenced and turned into ambient music. It's not going to storm the pop charts any time soon, but it's not awful-sounding either.
    Tags: music, weird, flu
  • Open the Future: Pandemonium
    I keep linking to on-line acquaintance Jamais Cascio's stuff because he's bloody good. I'm really quite sorry that I'm going to miss out on a chance for a pint with him next week because I'll be in Toronto when he's in London. This one is particularly worth reading if all you can see ahead of us is the global failure of the human species. It probably won't cheer you up terribly much, but well, he makes a particularly good point in a particularly good way.

Bookmarks for February 5, 2009

  • Southbank Centre > Music > Mouse on Mars soundtrack Herzog's Fata Morgana
    Anyone interested in this? Herzog + weird German Electro sounds like a moral victory to me.
    Tags: music, art, theatre
  • Should The New York Times Ditch Paper, Distribute Kindle E-readers?
    According to one set of maths, it might actually work out cheaper for the paper to give away Kindles for a while, and then switch to digital only. The logic is flawed in a number of places (the move would cripple their ability to pick up new readers in the short term for example), but it's still fascinating to see that even with e-paper equivalent as expensive as the Kindle, the maths looks to be becoming favourable.
  • Open the Future: Flunking Out
    Jamais Cascio explaining quite clearly why the academic program offered by the recently opened "Singularity University" is a load of old trousers, and offering a rather more sensible sounding educational program for teaching people to think about the coming years/decades.
  • DesignAday – Truism
    "Broken gets fixed. Shoddy lasts forever." Having recognised that as true, I don't particularly need to refer to the actual this link myself, but I thought I'd mark anyway it just as an action to ensure I commit it to memory.